Hello, and thank you for your recent contributions. I appreciate the effort you made for our project, but unfortunately I had to undo your edit(s) because I believe the article was better before you made that change (as per WP:OR). Feel free to contact me directly if you have any questions. Thank you! A m i t 웃 03:15, 25 October 2013 (UTC)
Hello students, and welcome to Wikipedia! It appears you are participating in a class project. You and your classmates have been doing good work to expand articles about endangered and extinct animals. I am leaving this note to offer some advice about editing more carefully and about editing Wikipedia in general.
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I have noticed that some of your fellow students have been having trouble adding citations to articles. It can be challenging to learn the proper syntax, but it is rewarding to see your additions formatted nicely when you get it right. When you add citations, please try to format them to match citations that are already in well-documented articles on Wikipedia. Specifically:
month=
, just put the whole day, month, and year in the date=
parameter.accessdate=
only when you have a url to go with it. accessdate=
is not necessary for journal citations.accessdate=
and other dates need to be in
one of these formats. Date formats like 10/12/2013 can be confusing to people reading in countries where they put the day of the month first.pages=
for the page numbers of a journal article, like this: pages=253–264
. You should not cite the specific page on which the cited information appears.url=
http://www.science.org
. This is not right: url=www.science.org
.Thanks for all of your hard work! – Jonesey95 ( talk) 04:18, 25 October 2013 (UTC)
Hello 16C EXT2013, and welcome to Wikipedia. Your addition to Landline has had to be removed, as it appears to have added copyrighted material without permission from the copyright holder. While we appreciate your contributing to Wikipedia, there are certain things you must keep in mind about using information from your sources to avoid copyright or plagiarism issues here.
It's very important that contributors understand and follow these practices, as policy requires that people who persistently do not must be blocked from editing. If you have any questions about this, you are welcome to leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. The text in question was from http://gigaom.com/2012/12/26/over-half-of-american-homes-dont-have-or-use-their-landline/ William Avery ( talk) 08:13, 26 October 2013 (UTC)
Thanks for uploading File:MLB wireless.jpg. I noticed that this file is being used under a claim of fair use. However, I think that the way it is being used fails the first non-free content criterion. This criterion states that files used under claims of fair use may have no free equivalent; in other words, if the file could be adequately covered by a freely-licensed file or by text alone, then it may not be used on Wikipedia. If you believe this file is not replaceable, please:
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If you have uploaded other non-free media, consider checking that you have specified how these media fully satisfy our non-free content criteria. You can find a list of description pages you have edited by clicking on this link. Note that even if you follow steps 1 and 2 above, non-free media which could be replaced by freely licensed alternatives will be deleted 2 days after this notification (7 days if uploaded before 13 July 2006), per the non-free content policy. If you have any questions, please ask them at the Media copyright questions page. Thank you. Super Mario Man 18:50, 7 November 2013 (UTC)
Hello, and thank you for your recent contributions. I appreciate the effort you made for our project, but unfortunately I had to undo your edit(s) because I believe the article was better before you made that change (as per WP:OR). Feel free to contact me directly if you have any questions. Thank you! A m i t 웃 03:15, 25 October 2013 (UTC)
Hello students, and welcome to Wikipedia! It appears you are participating in a class project. You and your classmates have been doing good work to expand articles about endangered and extinct animals. I am leaving this note to offer some advice about editing more carefully and about editing Wikipedia in general.
First, please ask your instructor or professor to drop us a note on the Wikipedia:Education noticeboard. We would like to offer some assistance and advice.
If you haven't done so already, we encourage you to go through our training for students. Your instructor or professor may wish to set up a course page, if your class doesn't already have one.
If you need help, check out
Wikipedia:Questions, ask me for help by creating a new section on
my talk page, or ask your question on this page and then place {{Helpme}}
before the question. Please also read this helpful
advice for students.
We hope you like it here and encourage you to stay, learn, and contribute even after your assignment is finished!
I have noticed that some of your fellow students have been having trouble adding citations to articles. It can be challenging to learn the proper syntax, but it is rewarding to see your additions formatted nicely when you get it right. When you add citations, please try to format them to match citations that are already in well-documented articles on Wikipedia. Specifically:
month=
, just put the whole day, month, and year in the date=
parameter.accessdate=
only when you have a url to go with it. accessdate=
is not necessary for journal citations.accessdate=
and other dates need to be in
one of these formats. Date formats like 10/12/2013 can be confusing to people reading in countries where they put the day of the month first.pages=
for the page numbers of a journal article, like this: pages=253–264
. You should not cite the specific page on which the cited information appears.url=
http://www.science.org
. This is not right: url=www.science.org
.Thanks for all of your hard work! – Jonesey95 ( talk) 04:18, 25 October 2013 (UTC)
Hello 16C EXT2013, and welcome to Wikipedia. Your addition to Landline has had to be removed, as it appears to have added copyrighted material without permission from the copyright holder. While we appreciate your contributing to Wikipedia, there are certain things you must keep in mind about using information from your sources to avoid copyright or plagiarism issues here.
It's very important that contributors understand and follow these practices, as policy requires that people who persistently do not must be blocked from editing. If you have any questions about this, you are welcome to leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. The text in question was from http://gigaom.com/2012/12/26/over-half-of-american-homes-dont-have-or-use-their-landline/ William Avery ( talk) 08:13, 26 October 2013 (UTC)
Thanks for uploading File:MLB wireless.jpg. I noticed that this file is being used under a claim of fair use. However, I think that the way it is being used fails the first non-free content criterion. This criterion states that files used under claims of fair use may have no free equivalent; in other words, if the file could be adequately covered by a freely-licensed file or by text alone, then it may not be used on Wikipedia. If you believe this file is not replaceable, please:
{{di-replaceable fair use disputed|<your reason>}}
below the original replaceable fair use template, replacing <your reason>
with a short explanation of why the file is not replaceable.Alternatively, you can also choose to replace this non-free media item by finding freely licensed media of the same subject, requesting that the copyright holder release this (or similar) media under a free license, or by creating new media yourself (for example, by taking your own photograph of the subject).
If you have uploaded other non-free media, consider checking that you have specified how these media fully satisfy our non-free content criteria. You can find a list of description pages you have edited by clicking on this link. Note that even if you follow steps 1 and 2 above, non-free media which could be replaced by freely licensed alternatives will be deleted 2 days after this notification (7 days if uploaded before 13 July 2006), per the non-free content policy. If you have any questions, please ask them at the Media copyright questions page. Thank you. Super Mario Man 18:50, 7 November 2013 (UTC)